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Disappointed - My opinion

dwinhold

Looking back at the latest design challenge Design for a Cause, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed. Before I continue, congratulations to everyone who competed and completed or tried their best. I always feel if you tried your best and didn't complete you still succeeded. This challenge was for a great cause and potentially help many people for little to no cost. This challenge was even more important as part of the winners prize goes to charity!! I personally put 100% of my effort and knowledge into creating my project as I truly hope one day it will become a reality for the seeing impaired. Now for the disappointing part:

 

16 competitors chosen / Unknown number of applicants

16 kits sent out

8 competitors completed

4 competitors started but didn't continue past a couple of blogs

4 competitors didn't even start

Now this means 50% took the challenge serious and wants to make a difference. 25% started and gave up (Reasons unknown). 25% didn't even start.

 

So what happened? 8 competitors got the kit for free and did nothing for it. They took away 8 others from competing in the challenge who could have made a difference. The kit was worth $250.00USD, so $2000 worth of electronics was wasted. That is wrong and disappointing....

 

 

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Dale W

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  • I was calculating the count, right after the end of this design challenge, of the ones who have completed and of those who did not. And said to myself, don’t know why they didn’t proceed after receiving kits! But you did the more appropriate thing by bringing this to everyone’s notice (Most already aware) If they implement something similar to road test in design challenge like, if you don’t complete you have to return the product back and you will not be able to participate in E14 roadtests anymore. Maybe for design challenges they could relax it to only those who didn’t complete at least 50% of their projects.

     

    Regarding unknown number of applicants, 45 have applied. You can see this in a fraction of second when you navigate from the design challenge page to the contents page image See applications in the screenshot below.

     

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    Leaving to the E14 team to decide ... tagging in whom I believe are responsible for Design Challenges.

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  • I was calculating the count, right after the end of this design challenge, of the ones who have completed and of those who did not. And said to myself, don’t know why they didn’t proceed after receiving kits! But you did the more appropriate thing by bringing this to everyone’s notice (Most already aware) If they implement something similar to road test in design challenge like, if you don’t complete you have to return the product back and you will not be able to participate in E14 roadtests anymore. Maybe for design challenges they could relax it to only those who didn’t complete at least 50% of their projects.

     

    Regarding unknown number of applicants, 45 have applied. You can see this in a fraction of second when you navigate from the design challenge page to the contents page image See applications in the screenshot below.

     

    image

     

    Leaving to the E14 team to decide ... tagging in whom I believe are responsible for Design Challenges.

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